... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing..

Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human cap….

We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its….

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses..

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abund….

the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense th….

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , t….

The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still ….

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And….

We are free to change the world and start something new in it..

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom..

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience..

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, ….

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom..

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought..

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think..

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with ….

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength..

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance..

where everybody is guilty, nobody is..

What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with th….